06-21-2026, 07:40 AM
Mgr. Louis de Ségur: Short Answers to Common Objections Against Religion - 1908
CONCLUSION.
You see, dear reader, all these answers are dictated by common sense, nothing more. No extraordinary ingenuity of mind, nor any subtle tricks of rhetoric are employed in them. By merely showing itself, truth is proved.
There exist, no doubt, in the world, many other prejudices against Religion. Errors, like follies, have no limit. Nevertheless, I hope I have collected in this small volume those objections which are most commonly raised.
The remaining ones, I can assure you, are no better founded than those I have noticed. Of whatever kind they may be, they are sophisms, that is to say, specious arguments, which have the appearance of reason and truth, but in reality are weak on one side or the other. There can be no reason opposed to the truth.
If any one of these objections is an obstacle in your path, go, I beg of you, to some good priest (they are not rare or difficult to find, God be thanked), and be assured beforehand of the cordial reception you will meet with from him. Lay open your difficulty to him with all candor; he will show you its easy solution.
Endeavor to become better instructed in all that regards religion; the more we know of it, the more we love it; the more we love it, the more we practice its precepts. Many men attack it because they do not know it. They represent religion to themselves as totally different to what it really is, and, therefore, they think they have very good reason to turn it into ridicule.
I fervently hope that my conversations with you may have been somewhat profitable to your soul. Read over and reflect on those points of our discussion which have chiefly arrested your mind.
May I have been happy enough to have increased in your heart the respect due to faith, the love of virtue, and the zeal for your own salvation! This has been my only aim in writing this little book! I shall then have been laboring for your happiness, and my little book will have been a good action.
I ask God for His blessing on it, on you, and on myself. With this, I take leave of you, my dear reader; to meet again, I hope, in Paradise!
FINIS.
CONCLUSION.
You see, dear reader, all these answers are dictated by common sense, nothing more. No extraordinary ingenuity of mind, nor any subtle tricks of rhetoric are employed in them. By merely showing itself, truth is proved.
There exist, no doubt, in the world, many other prejudices against Religion. Errors, like follies, have no limit. Nevertheless, I hope I have collected in this small volume those objections which are most commonly raised.
The remaining ones, I can assure you, are no better founded than those I have noticed. Of whatever kind they may be, they are sophisms, that is to say, specious arguments, which have the appearance of reason and truth, but in reality are weak on one side or the other. There can be no reason opposed to the truth.
If any one of these objections is an obstacle in your path, go, I beg of you, to some good priest (they are not rare or difficult to find, God be thanked), and be assured beforehand of the cordial reception you will meet with from him. Lay open your difficulty to him with all candor; he will show you its easy solution.
Endeavor to become better instructed in all that regards religion; the more we know of it, the more we love it; the more we love it, the more we practice its precepts. Many men attack it because they do not know it. They represent religion to themselves as totally different to what it really is, and, therefore, they think they have very good reason to turn it into ridicule.
I fervently hope that my conversations with you may have been somewhat profitable to your soul. Read over and reflect on those points of our discussion which have chiefly arrested your mind.
May I have been happy enough to have increased in your heart the respect due to faith, the love of virtue, and the zeal for your own salvation! This has been my only aim in writing this little book! I shall then have been laboring for your happiness, and my little book will have been a good action.
I ask God for His blessing on it, on you, and on myself. With this, I take leave of you, my dear reader; to meet again, I hope, in Paradise!
FINIS.
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre